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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64319)	1/21/2002 3:53:23 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Hmmm... that's the first time I heard someone referring to Windows originating in anything that has to do with networks... I think most people think of computers as screen images. They walk to a computer monitor with a keyboard and call it "a computer". With today's internet, users often don't know the exact location of their data. That's why the desktop and the new shell file hierarchy was invented in Windows and also now in Linux. What people want, is their own information at their fingertips, no matter which screen they approach. Walk up to a random screen in your home, log in, use your desktop as it always looks like, play some games etc. Linux does that. Windows doesn't. It's that simple. You can do it with Windows if you spend a lot of money. In fact, you can do it with standard distributions - no complicated setup like in Windows is needed, and no server version is needed. And unlike Windows servers and many common Windows applications, Linux is localized. Btw I just saw that Dell.dk now sells computers with foreign language Windows XP home preinstalled on their consumer PCs. But not localized Windows XP's yet. Let's hope that Windows XP will hit the market for real in 2002Q1, I look forward to see a Windows XP in a non-foreign language. Dybdahl.

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